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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
When the Naomi Kleins of this world get on a bandwagon, it's perfectly legitimate to be skeptical of their biases. Many of the people who rate climate change as an important political issue are no better versed in the science than climate change deniers are. They're simply hewing to partisan beliefs of their tribe, just as the deniers are.
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This is silly. It's ridiculous to expect average people to be well-versed in the science. I have only a very basic understanding of the science behind climate change. What I do have is a pragmatic deference to those who do understand the science.
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The science is real. But many on the left are only too happy to exploit the science and weaponize it for political ends. And in their zeal, they'll shamelessly torque the narrative, vilify opponents, reject any nuance, and promote a crisis mentality - just as zealots of all political stripes do.
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You're treading to close to a very damaging false equivalence. Do you honestly not see why the right's tactics of discrediting and undermining the science and scientists associated with climate change is much more harmful than the left discrediting the scientifically illiterate and those exhibiting textbook cases of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
The ways in which the modern conservative movement has managed to convince large segments of the population that uninformed, gut instinct is just as valid or superior to them there fancy-pants book-learners is both sad and bizarrely fascinating.